Bill of Health

JANUARY 29, 2024

In its origins, Psymposia was the programming partner for the largest psychedelic conference of its time—MAPS’s Psychedelic Science 2017—where it curated a full schedule of speakers on an eponymous stage. Image: Psychedelic Science 2017 signage, courtesy of Brian Normand.

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Informed Consent Bioethics Doctors 355

Bill of Health

JUNE 13, 2022

The AAMC requires medical school graduates to “demonstrate a commitment to ethical principles pertaining to provision or withholding of care, confidentiality, informed consent.” Correspondingly, most medical school ethics courses review issues related to consent, end-of-life care, and confidentiality.

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Informed Consent Doctors Bioethics Public Health 342

Bill of Health

MARCH 6, 2024

For instance, the 2017 case A.B At the time, the law required a person’s natural death to be “reasonably foreseeable” for a person to be eligible for MAID. The law did not specify a length of time until death that constituted “reasonably foreseeable,” and courts rejected an interpretation based on lifespan.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Much has been made of recently discussed CAR-T cell therapies for cancer , which have been around since 2017, and in-human sickle cell treatment Casgevy. Cell-mediated and tissue-based technologies hold promise in inducing self-repair from within the body, and they’re making their way to market in traditional medicine.

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